CDROM music read

2006-11-10 Thread Christophe TROESTLER
Hi, I own a Dell D820 with a SATA disk (but ATA CDROM handled through the "sr_mod" and "cdrom" modules) and a HDA audio card: ata2: PATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0x170 ctl 0x376 bmdma 0xBFA8 irq 15 scsi1 : ata_piix ata2.00: ATAPI, max UDMA/33 ata2.00: configured for UDMA/33 Vendor: SONY

a2ps -> gv font

2004-08-30 Thread Christophe TROESTLER
Hi, When I do "a2ps -Pdisplay " (but not when I send the job to a printer), the font is not right (going over the right margin, superimposing the text in the next column). Is there a way to correct that? ChriS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tro

Mozilla print with openoffice fonts

2004-01-13 Thread Christophe TROESTLER
Hi all, When I print with mozilla to a PS file and then view it with gv all the characters are replaced by boxes. After investigation, it turns out that it is due to the openoffice fonts (if I remove the openoffice packages, everything is fine). Any explanations and workaround would be nice. Ha

Dell Inspiron 5100

2003-06-16 Thread Christophe TROESTLER
Hi, I am thinking to buy a Dell inspiron 5100. If you own such a machine, can you tell me * does everything work? * are you happy with it? Thanks for any information, ChriS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RAID & EXT2-fs error

2003-01-24 Thread Christophe TROESTLER
On Wed, 22 Jan 2003, John Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am copying & pasting their post: > > > I've written a doc on how to install a Debian with root file system over > LVM and RAID. > > If it's of any interest it can be found at this URL: > http://www.midhgard.it/docs/index_en.htm

RAID & EXT2-fs error

2003-01-21 Thread Christophe TROESTLER
Hi all, I am trying to install a Debian testing box with root on RAID 1 following the instructions given at http://karaolides.com/computing/HOWTO/lvmraid/ Everything works fine until I add the initial install disk into the RAID array (http://karaolides.com/computing/HOWTO/lvmraid/node26.html). Th

Re: DMA woes

2002-12-17 Thread Christophe TROESTLER
On Tue, 17 Dec 2002, Gregory Seidman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > # hdparm -i /dev/hda | grep -i dma > IORDY=on/off, tPIO={min:120,w/IORDY:120}, tDMA={min:120,rec:120} > DMA modes: mdma0 mdma1 *mdma2 udma0 udma1 udma2 udma3 udma4 udma5 ^ Just a thought: should you n

cmpci driver (CM8338A card)

2002-12-17 Thread Christophe TROESTLER
Hi all, I have been switching from 2.2.x kernels to 2.4.19/20 kernels in part for DRM and support for SIS5513. However the sound card, an on board CM8338A based, stopped to work properly with the 2.4.x kernels. It is detected by the cmpci driver (here is the startup message cmpci: version $Revi

Re: Magic with make install

2002-12-05 Thread Christophe TROESTLER
On Thu, 5 Dec 2002, Eduardo Rocha Costa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm new on Debian, and I was wondering if a magic command exists in > deb.. like this: Let's suppose that I want to compile the program > foo. before I run make install, I run this magic command, and it > gather every informa

Installation troubles (Was: [2002-04-30] Release Status Update)

2002-05-01 Thread Christophe TROESTLER
On Tue, 30 Apr 2002, Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This seems like an excellent opportunity to do final testing of > woody. It would be great for peace of mind to see some successful > installation and upgrade reports. Well, I hope it is the right place to post this. I just made a fr

WindowMaker 0.70.0-1

2001-10-19 Thread Christophe TROESTLER
Hi, The lastest version of wmaker in testing/unstable (0.70.0-1) has the following bug: when "Option -> Onmipresent" from the title bar is checked, the CPU runs into highs (because of XFree86 and WindowMaker processes). If "Option -> Onmipresent" is then unchecked, everything go back to normal.

Re: Determining IP address of my pc (dial up and/or cable modem)

2001-05-24 Thread Christophe TROESTLER
On Thu, 24 May 2001, "Antonio Rodriguez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I know this must be a very stupid question (+/+) flaming myself > Any way: I am not sure how I can determine the IP address of my > machine after I have a dialup connection established. Will the first > ip given by mtr be

Freefonts -> LaTeX

2001-04-06 Thread Christophe TROESTLER
Hi, Does anybody knows whether there is a package (or any help) to use the fonts in the ``freefont'' package with LaTeX. It seems technically possible (they are Type 1 fonts and the .afm's can be found on the Web) but bit tedious to do -- especially considering somebody else probably got the same

Re: TTF problem in X

2001-03-02 Thread Christophe TROESTLER
On Thu, 01 Mar 2001, Andrea Vettorello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Christophe TROESTLER wrote: > > > * With xfstt, I succeeds to see the fonts with xlsfonts but when I try > > e.g., > > xfontsel -pattern > > -ttf-verdana-medium-r-normal-reg

TTF fonts : Missing charsets ...

2001-03-01 Thread Christophe TROESTLER
Hi, I use wfstt to get TTF available to X. I can see the fonts with xlsfonts | grep ttf but when I try for example xfd -fn -ttf-verdana-medium-r-normal-regular-0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1 I get Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion Warning: Unable to

TTF problem in X

2001-02-27 Thread Christophe TROESTLER
Hi all, I have been trying to set up a way to get TTF fonts on the X display. * With xfs-xtt, I configured the directory /usr/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType/ (put symlinks for the fonts and made mkttfdir) and added FontPath "unix/:7100" to /etc/X11/XF86Config but I don't even see the font

modeline -> sony A220

2001-01-23 Thread Christophe TROESTLER
Hi, I am trying to run Debian Potato on an AMD K6 with a Sony Trinitron A220 (http://www.sony.be/wa/showroom/computerapparatuur/monitor.html) monitor. I was wondering whether somebody could help me with setting the correct modelines for this monitor. The specs say 1024 x 768 à 88 Hz

Synchronizing the files on two machines

2000-11-17 Thread Christophe TROESTLER
Hello, I would like to be able to synchronize the *certain* files on two machines that are *not* directly connected to each other. More precisely, I have to transfer data daily between two machines and the only convenient way to do that is through floppies (ZIP / rewritable CDs). Do you know a p

Re: _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111

2000-08-16 Thread Christophe TROESTLER
On Thu, 17 Aug 2000, Mirko Parthey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Sorry, I should have told you to censor the keys, because they are > sensitive info. :-( For your safety, I strongly recommend restarting > the X server on *all* machines mentioned in your listing (if you > haven't done yet after "x

Re: _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111

2000-08-16 Thread Christophe TROESTLER
On Wed, 16 Aug 2000, Mirko Parthey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, 16 Aug 2000, Christophe TROESTLER wrote: > > > _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111 > > Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: :0.0 > > ls -l /tmp/.X11-unix

_X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111

2000-08-16 Thread Christophe TROESTLER
Hi, I've got a "funny" thing with Potato. When it has been running for a while (now 11 days but that happened before as well) and I try to launch an X client, I got the error message: _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111 Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: :0.0

Re: C programming

2000-08-04 Thread Christophe TROESTLER
On Fri, 4 Aug 2000, John Reinke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 1) This is NOT for a programming assignment. ;-) Ho, no! :-) These are just some experiments. > 2) Using the comma within a condition is treated as AND (&&). That's > messier code than I usually create. Well, this is uncorrect. E

C programming

2000-08-04 Thread Christophe TROESTLER
Hi the list, I apologize if that is a little bit off topic but I am a bit puzzled and I know there are experts on this list. I would like an explanation on why the two "for" below give different results. Thanks, ChriS -.¸¸.·´¯`·.¸¸.-.¸¸.·´¯`·.¸¸.-.¸¸.·´¯`·.¸¸.-.¸¸.·´¯`·.¸¸.-.¸¸.·´¯`·.

Re: cos() in math.h ?

2000-08-02 Thread Christophe TROESTLER
Thanks to all for answering my very simple question. Now, how was I supposed to know I had to link against `m'? I mean, given a header file, is the file I have to link against specified in the doc? Is there any info on that subject you can refer me to? Thanks from a C newbie, ChriS

cos() in math.h ?

2000-08-02 Thread Christophe TROESTLER
Hi all, According to the man page, if I want to use `cos' in a program, I simply need to include `math.h'. However, when I compile, I got the error: /tmp/cc9WOsLC.o(.text+0x16): undefined reference to `cos' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status I got the necessary packages to comp

Re: SGML beginners question

2000-07-31 Thread Christophe TROESTLER
On Thu, 22 Jun 2000, Johann Spies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 22, 2000 at 11:18:27AM +, Tony wrote: > > ^ > > ^"Eric G . Miller" wrote: > > ^ > > ^> really slick and well formatted documents. And for writing something > > ^> like a thesis, using BibTeX makes it easy to handle c

Re: Nouvelle version

2000-07-03 Thread Christophe TROESTLER
On Sun, 02 Jul 2000, "Oliver Elphick" wrote: > > [And how do you type accented characters on an English keyboard?] Use Emacs. « C-x RET C-\ » and select « latin-1-prefix ». Another solution is to redefine the keymap (/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/symbols/). I have done it for easier access (plus I w

netscape 4.73 & su -

2000-06-27 Thread Christophe TROESTLER
Hi, I have a strange experience on my box. Here it goes: suppose you have two accounts "prem" and "sec". Do - log in as prem - launch netscape - xhost +local: - su - sec - export DISPLAY=:0 - launch netscape The second netscape I got is the one of "prem", not the one of "sec" as expected. If I

Re: mounting cdroms

2000-06-13 Thread Christophe TROESTLER
On Sat, 03 Jun 2000, Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > How do I give normal users permissions to mount cd-roms? Do I add them > to a group?? Which one? Please 'CC' me in a reply. man fstab /user My /etc/fstab line: /dev/cdrom /cdrom iso9660 defaults,ro,user,noauto

Re: no ppp after update potato

2000-06-10 Thread Christophe TROESTLER
On Sat, 10 Jun 2000, Hans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I just did a potato update on my notebook and afterwards I couldn't > connect to my ISP with pon/poff. pppconfig doesn't recognize my > cardmodem anymore which used to be /dev/ttyS1. I reinstalled pcmcia > support, but to no avail. I notice

PCMCIA modules recompilation: Undefined symbols

2000-06-07 Thread Christophe TROESTLER
Hi, I needed to recompile a kernel to support some hardware on my laptop. Thus also the PCMCIA modules needed to be build. I issued: make-kpkg modules_clean make-kpkg modules_image and installed. All went fine. Except with depmod (in the postinstall script or otherwise) which gi

Re: determining what makes a filesystem busy

2000-05-29 Thread Christophe TROESTLER
On Mon, 29 May 2000, Dan Christensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Is there an easy way to determine what makes a filesystem busy, e.g. > what prevents me from remounting /usr readonly after an upgrade? > Usually some file that was erased is being held open by a process, > but I don't know an eas

Re: xterm xterm-debian

2000-05-21 Thread Christophe TROESTLER
On Thu, 18 May 2000, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What's the best the best way to avoid having ot reset my terminal > variable everytime I telnet to a site that does not know what > xterm-debian is? Since this happens quite often it is getting a > little tedious. Make a script. For example I

Options for automatic recompilation

2000-05-21 Thread Christophe TROESTLER
Hi everybody, I know apt-get --compile source will download and recompile the package for me but I was wondering if there is a standard way (i.e., not modifying debian/rules but changing a config file for apt-get) to pass optimizations for i586 processors? I indeed like to optimize e.g

Re: Creating booklets with Latex

2000-05-11 Thread Christophe TROESTLER
On Sat, 29 Apr 2000, Chanop Silpa-Anan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Once upon a time, I heard Nils-Erik Svangård say > > > I've gotten in trouble again, bragging about how good Debian is > > and that I write all my reports in Latex. Well now I might gone > > under. I'm supposed to produce a boo

Re: ICQ

2000-05-08 Thread Christophe TROESTLER
On Mon, 08 May 2000, Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Can anyone recommend an ICQ app? I heard KICQ lacks a lot of feature > and won't let you create new accounts. I personally use gnomeicu (http://gnomeicu.gdev.net/) which is well featured but I heard some people like ICQnix (http:/

Re: Mail/news software

2000-04-30 Thread Christophe TROESTLER
On Sat, 29 Apr 2000, "Kovacs Istvan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What mail and news software do you recommend? The ideal software > would be able to handle both mail and news in an integrated manner, > place incoming and outgoing messages into folders automatically > using header i

Re: Scrolling with a Wheel Mouse in Netscape

2000-04-23 Thread Christophe TROESTLER
On Sat, 22 Apr 2000, Eric Hagglund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Got on Collas Nahaboo's Wheel Mouse web page. I was able to use the > information on it to get my xterm to scroll previous output, but I'm > still having problems getting Netscape to work. The information on > Collas' page said